Community | March 26, 2011 | 229 comments

Media Matters Declares War Against Fox

source: http://MoveOn.org

Image
wayseeker
The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.

The group, launched as a more traditional media critic, has all but abandoned its monitoring of newspapers and other television networks and is narrowing its focus to Fox and a handful of conservative websites, which its leaders view as political organizations and the “nerve center” of the conservative movement. The shift reflects the centrality of the cable channel to the contemporary conservative movement, as well as the loathing it inspires among liberals — not least among the donors who fund Media Matters’ staff of about 90, who are arrayed in neat rows in a giant war room above Massachusetts Avenue.

“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.

The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”

In an interview and a 2010 planning memo shared with POLITICO, Brock listed the fronts on which Media Matters — which he said is operating on a $10 million-plus annual budget — is working to chip away at Fox and its parent company, News Corp. They include its bread-and-butter distribution of embarrassing clips and attempts to rebut Fox points, as well as a series of under-the-radar tactics.

Media Matters, Brock said, is assembling opposition research files not only on Fox’s top executives but on a series of midlevel officials. It has hired an activist who has led a successful campaign to press advertisers to avoid Glenn Beck’s show. The group is assembling a legal team to help people who have clashed with Fox to file lawsuits for defamation, invasion of privacy or other causes. And it has hired two experienced reporters, Joe Strupp and Alexander Zaitchik, to dig into Fox’s operation to help assemble a book on the network, due out in 2012 from Vintage/Anchor. (In the interest of full disclosure, Media Matters last month also issued a report criticizing “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy’s criticism of this reporter’s blog.)

Brock said Media Matters also plans to run a broad campaign against Fox’s parent company, News Corp., an effort which most likely will involve opening a United Kingdom arm in London to attack the company’s interests there. The group hired an executive from MoveOn.org to work on developing campaigns among News Corp. shareholders and also is looking for ways to turn regulators in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere against the network.

The group will “focus on [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch and trying to disrupt his commercial interests — whether that be here or looking at what’s going on in London right now,” Brock said, referring to News Corp.’s — apparently successful — move to take a majority stake in the satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html#ixzz1HkYz1dch
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html
  1. groups:
    Community,   Not News
  2. tags:
    media matters,  Media Matters for America,  Fox Blues,  Conseratives. Rupert Murdoch
  3. recommended by:
    unimatrix0
  4.     
    |

229 comments // Media Matters Declares War Against Fox

  • Mark701
    • +3
      Mark701  

    • I've said this before and I'll repeat it here, Faux News has NO interest in conservatism. Faux News only interest is money and profit.

      Murdoch realized many years ago that there was a percentage of Americans who were (1)ignorant (2)easily led (3)looking for legitimization of their hateful, backward and bigoted views. He proceeded to build a cable "news" network that gave these people exactly what they wanted i.e. a one sided, one dimensional view of life and politics their little brains could grasp. As the "news" station success grew so did the ad revenues which, of course, is really what Murdoch was after. In order to generate even MORE money, Faux News went from telling a lie here and there to creating false news and outright telling blatant lies to inflame passions. Why? Because it attracted even more people and increased ad revenues! How else can anyone justify the widely disparate things FOX does? For example, they were one of the ring leaders inflaming passions over the proposed mosque in New York yet their second largest investor is a Saudi Arabian Prince that initially blamed the Trade Center attacks on the American people. These are not the actions of a man who has strong beliefs about anything except money. In other words, Murdoch is a conscienceless, greedy, opportunist, nothing more, nothing less.

      I'm fairly certain if liberals could be relied on to be more ignorant and easily led than conservatives, Faux News would be populated with liberals.

    • 1 year ago
  • wayseeker
  • dinm76
    • +1
      dinm76  

    • Not to go off subject but....Link TV has had some really great programing over the past weekend and some even greater reporting coming up later next month ENCLUDING the first really independent report on the TRUTH about the faux-Tea Party!
      Link TV, Freespeech TV, Al Jeezara, MPBN, NPR and CURRENT TV are hope for the future and I hope all posters here support them in anyway they can.

    • 1 year ago
  • extracrazykiwi2008
  • August_K
  • August_K
  • pamajoh
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • +3
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • Image

    • I am proud to self-identify myself as a
      Conservative
      (adjective; tending to be moderate or cautious
      cautiously moderate or purposefully low
      having the power or tendency to conserve)
      Liberal
      (adjective; open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression. in accord with having policies or views advocating or favorable to concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties. relating to or having social and political views that favour progress and reform, as in political or religious affairs. )
      Democratic-Republican
      (The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, the American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The presidents selected by the party were: Thomas Jefferson [1801–1809], James Madison [1809–1817], and James Monroe [1817–1825].)

      Conservative Liberal Democratic Republicanism: Definition
      http://judgian12365.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/conservative-liberal-democratic-rep...

      my suggestion would be that we return the words “Liberal” and “Conservative” to what they LITERALLY mean
      The word “Conservative” begins with the word “Conserve” which means “to use or manage wisely, to prevent waste or loss; preserve: to maintain a quantity constant”
      YET, the last “conservative” administration began its term with a record-setting multi-billion-dollar national budget surplus and a first-time-ever balanced federal government budget but ended their tenure with record-smashing budget deficits and an unprecedented exponential multiplication of the National Debt
      They did NOT “conserve” anything at all
      the word “Liberal” literally means “giving and generous, willing to give in large amounts; given freely; abundant and lavish”
      YET during the last “Liberal” Presidency, our nation went from a then-unprecedented economic recession and record national debt to a balanced federal government budget and record-breaking annual budget surpluses
      The last “liberal” administration was VERY conservative and the last “conservative” Presidency spent its largesse VERY liberally
      even today it is the “CONSERVATIVES” that want legally mandate who can and cannot get married; and to force women to have their incestuous rapists’ babies, whether the women in question want children or not
      a truly UNPRECEDENTED exponential expansion in the size, scope, and power of he government
      this while giving literally TRILLIONS in the government’s money (which comes from taxes paid by citizens) to multi-trans-national corporate conglomeration
      many of which also happen to perform a variety of services for the governments of other nations who wish nothing more than our destruction
      while it is the LIBERALS who want to keep the government doing what it was originally DESIGNED to do, to “ensure the general welfare”, and to “preserve domestic tranquility” by ensuring that ALL citizens of this nation can go to a hospital and receive proper medical care if and when they do get sick and to guarantee, seeing as how we have an all-volunteer military, that the brave and courageous men and women who voluntarily want to sign up to join and to serve in our armed forces can do so without lying to those around them and living their lives in secrecy
      in summary, we have UTTERLY lost the meaning of the terms we use to describe one another and that, it is my believe, is the source of so much of the discord and misunderstanding amongst parties

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
    • 0
      August_K  
    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      Highlighted text from the Concise Oxford Dictionary picture above.

      Fascism - any system of extreme or right wing authoritarian views.

      And some wise words from our past........

      Franklin D. Roosevelt in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress warned that the growth of private power could lead to Fascism:

      The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
      That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

    • 1 year ago
  • gump
    • 0
      gump  
    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      Thanks for the large array. You tried to bridge alot of semantic chaos. I appreciate the effort . But now please try to organize a clear (simple as possible) model of how things work based upon people in positions of power making decisions in such way that they maximize thier own gains. Not the gains of the whole population above which they hold some sway or power. Because that is the pivot spot where corruption begins. The biased decisions of leaders to benefit themselves .leads to thier work falling short of what is good for the whole population. Currently the name conservative denotes aggressive self agrandizement . Over time the meaning behind names and words tends to change toward its previous opposite. Semantic quicksand for the unaware. Currently congames and flimflam men hold power in the USA .Currently they are the extreme right. Old definitions and meanings are less accurate. Currently liberal is more like "abondansa". good and plenty. Because the shareing they advocate promotes abundance in the economy of the world and human progress for the entire species. By contrast the right is full of pride filled tricksters who see personal success as the extraction and hoarding of as much as possible away from everyone else.They are immature and squirrily. Self implodeing. Thier work over time dvides us from eachother and and passes a knife between humanity and its obvious goals of survival and exploration. Much of it is done useing lies and fakery. Even fake news on Fox. Flim Flam. Misrepresenting the entire world to the entire world.. When some one goes to the trouble of decieveing you it is seldom because they care abot you.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • pamajoh
  • stevnjessie1
    • +2
      stevnjessie1  

    • I hope this is possible. It seems like tevery day, Fox, and/or the Republic Right, does something unforgivingly outrageous, and yet, their followers are not swayed in the least. They won't leave that tiny island of info outlet. They'd rather have someone tell them what to think to save them the effort.

    • 1 year ago
  • wayseeker
    • +3
      wayseeker  

    • The difference between the conservative and the liberal elements in our country is no longer a friendly ideological disagreement that we Liberals can ignore.The future well being of our country is at stake. It is time to stand and fight and say we've had enough of the ignorance, immorality and deceit propagated by the Republican party and it's media cohort, Fox. We can no longer afford the luxury of always taking the highroad. We are in a profound struggle where apathy and neutrally is our worst enemy.

    • 1 year ago
  • dinm76
  • SIBob
    • +1
      SIBob  
    • Image

    • I have one simple solution regarding Fox News, don’t watch it. Libel issues are important, of course, but we can’t stop anyone or any corporate entity from spewing garbage. We need to set up viable alternatives and we should try to convince people with the power of our arguments. It is probably obvious to many of you right now that it is impossible to convert hard-line rightists or leftists. They usually remain locked-in for life. The only possibility for persuasion is the “fickle middle” and that would only be for one election at a time. The swaying back and forth of that middle faction is what makes or breaks elections. Then, no matter who gets in, the politicians go with the pro-corporate agenda anyway because that is who pays their campaign costs. As long as we all have free access to the internet we can get our message across to any “target audience”. The mass media outlets, which most of us know are controlled by fewer and fewer individuals, cannot be trusted anyway.
      http://sibob.org/wordpress/?p=2620

    • 1 year ago
  • gypsysailor
  • wayseeker
  • nevergiveup
    • +2
      nevergiveup  
    • gypsysailor:

      We win the war on FOX by getting everyone you know to NOT WATCH IT.

      Friends don't let friends watch FOX Propaganda. Fox is bad for the country, bad for our economy, bad for democracy and bad for our individual well-being. FOX promotes fear, anger, hatred and lies.

    • 1 year ago
  • madammarsh
    • 0
      madammarsh  
    • nevergiveup:

      I watch Fox as often as I can stand it. Painful, yes, but also useful when you can say, from first-hand, this is what they're saying or doing (e.g., last night I saw a beauty queen discussing Libya!). Also, on very rare occasions I see something I can agree with. Even O'Reilly has been known to be sensible. Can you believe it?

    • 1 year ago
  • free2bmeinusa
    • +4
      free2bmeinusa  

    • Count me in on the war against fox. I'm tired of the spewing of hatred and untruth that it has been spreading in the name of "unbiased journalism".

    • 1 year ago
  • Paratus
    • -8
      Paratus  

    • Media Matters trying to silence those they don't agree with. And some people say anyone not liberal are trying to silence those they don't agree with. Perhaps Fox should ask them for approval of their programing prior to air time. Why does MM see Fox as such a threat? Easy to see who the prospective tyrants are here isn't it. I have a better idea. Why don't we render George Soros irrelevant. Even better, how about a war against Media Matters.

    • 1 year ago
  • gypsysailor
    • +1
      gypsysailor  
    • Paratus:

      Soro's is open about what he does with his money. Can you say the same for the Koch suckers? Fox is a blight and canker foisted upon us by a foreigner and people like you lap it up like maple syrup.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • August_K
    • +2
      August_K  
    • Paratus:

      Fox is in collusion with those that are trying hard to turn our country into a Fascist state and if you can't see that from reading the articles posted here.......you need more help than even big pharma can offer.

      And regarding Soros....he doesn't spend 24/7 using a media empire to spread lies, distort the facts and use fear mongering to keep people scared and obedient.
      They're trying to be as controlling as religion........ fear of going to hell if you're not totally obedient.

      The religious extremists recently tossed out one of their own pastors for daring to write in a book
      that God is forgiving of all and there aren't really billions of souls in hell.
      They can't have that.......having people believe they won't go to hell. It's too liberating and it's very threatening to those that want to maintain their control over the sheeple.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
  • Mark701
    • 0
      Mark701  
    • Paratus:

      I don't think Media Matters said anything about silencing FOX "News" More to the point they are going to start calling them on their bullshit. The silencing part will only come in when people wake up enough to what a lying, stinking, worthless organization NewCorp is and simply tune them out.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • +1
      UtopianSky  
    • Paratus:

      As usual, you show you have no grasp of the topic of conversation.

      It is not about "silencing those they don't agree with", and you know it.

      It is about the integrity of the News Media as a whole, and the fact that FOX is not a News source, it is a propaganda machie that blatantly lies to manipulate the public.

      And for some reason, such as your blind brainwashed partisanship, you think being lied to is a good thing, as long as you enjoy the lies.

    • 1 year ago
  • CJH49
  • CalgarC
  • Prijedor
    • +3
      Prijedor  

    • Why cant we (the people, not the gov.) make some kind of an organization that fines News organizations if they are caught lying. Make it go thru court, or something, hold fire under their asses

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Wanderer_KS
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • CJH49
  • VoyagerFilms
    • +5
      VoyagerFilms  

    • Wow! Fight fire with fire or something like that. I like it. Expose the lie, expose the deceptions, expose the corrupt! It's all good!

    • 1 year ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • royulery
    • +2
      royulery  

    • lies suspicion and fear. fox's stock and trade.
      this movement may help but i wouldn't under estimate the shear power of stupidity and prejudice.

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Wanderer_KS
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • -1
      Itsbatman_Durr  
    • royulery:

      i hate fox, and am for the most part anti-conservative. but for fucks sake must we always call names? just because we dont agree doesnt make them stupid. and in all honesty when we had a liberal majority and the white house, we did no better than bush and his cronies did.

    • 1 year ago
  • CJH49
    • 0
      CJH49  
    • The_Wanderer_KS:

      I don't think people are all that ignorant, they just succumb to peer pressure. If they believe the propaganda is the majority point of view they will "go with the flow" most people have the need to belong, even if the popular opinion is not necessarily theirs. They don't have what it takes to stand out and be different, that's what makes only some men leaders and the rest followers. We DO need a strong, loud and opposing view. I think many will switch sides if they have somewhere to go.

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
    • +6
      Leen61  

    • How cool is this?! Media Matters is one of the very few organizations who are fighting for fair, balanced and accurate media broadcasts in absence of the Fairness Doctrine. Since today's politicians on either side of the aisle have no stomach or spine to challenge the status quo. I have a button that say "FOX--News for Dumb Fux." LOL! Say it all.

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • +6
      wolfess  
    • Leen61:

      I have a bumper sticker that says Turn Off Fox -- bad news for America.
      Between 'Anonymous' and Media Matters we might wake up to a vastly different America in the next few months -- I've got my Murdoch/Koch/Walker poppets ready to do the deed :-)!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
  • Leen61
  • The_Wanderer_KS
  • Leen61
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Leen61
    • +3
      Leen61  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      So you're saying that it's OK for FOX to flat out lie and never be held accountable for those lies? Since there is no Fairness Doctrine and the right-wing mouthpieces have been allowed to dominate the airwaves with their partisan misinformation and no politician has shown the slightest desire to rectify this situation, how then does that happen? You seem to be saying that it is OK for FOX to use the tactics they do, but it isn't for any other organization to fight back against it by pointing out their lies. Who is it that you are expecting to correct the situation in the mean time? Certainly not the politicians or the courts. As you yourself said in a prior post on this thread, we can't count on them to correct the problem. So I'm a bit confused to say the least. So are you saying we should not do anything to raise the media standard of truth and accuracy? Just stand by while a political action group masquerading as a news network turns more and more minds to mush and the parade of morons to the polls continues unabated? Not sure what you're saying actually.

    • 1 year ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • -1
      Itsbatman_Durr  
    • Leen61:

      not saying that at all. i am saying that ALL media should always be called out on lies, errors, bias and every time they fail to serve the public good. that isnt what media matters is saying they are going to do though. they are saying they are declaring war on a single source based purely on political POV. they are saying they are trying to silence voices such as the moron glenn beck's. who lays no claim to being a news journalist, but is a commentator, whose stupid opinion is as valid to have a soapbox as any others. they are looking to find info out on the channels management, to discredit them instead of disproving the lies and errors. they are being exactly the same jack booted thugs that we would all bitch about were they trying these very same tactics on us or sources we support

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
    • +2
      Leen61  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      Not sure if an equating to "jackboot thugs" is quite warranted, Itsbatman. This is Media Matters we're talking about here. Have you ever known of a liberal group who is on the radar like Media Matters is to go urban terrorist on any right wing operation? What I read here is the usual Media Matters campaign tactics of exposing lies and hypocrisy in the media, just focusing more exclusively on FOX which is clearly the worst purveyor of this sort of media. Does this really sound like sabotage in the strictest meaning of the word?

      "They include its bread-and-butter distribution of embarrassing clips and attempts to rebut Fox points, as well as a series of under-the-radar tactics.

      Media Matters, Brock said, is assembling opposition research files not only on Fox’s top executives but on a series of midlevel officials. It has hired an activist who has led a successful campaign to press advertisers to avoid Glenn Beck’s show. The group is assembling a legal team to help people who have clashed with Fox to file lawsuits for defamation, invasion of privacy or other causes."

      On the whole, this sounds pretty above board and within the legal realm. I think you're overacting a bit in response to Media Matters' definition of "guerilla warfare and sabotage". I'm just not seeing it to that level. They are just going to be more of a thorn in FOX's side and run cover for some of FOX's biggest targets of defamation. Beyond that, I don't see ant actions qualifying as "jackbooted".

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • 0
      wolfess  
    • Leen61:

      Yeah, sorry, every time I posted that it said something happened and it couldn't post, so I just kept trying :-).
      And then I gave up and went shopping :-)!!

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • +2
      wolfess  
    • Leen61:

      You know that early this year some halfwit that made a habit of listening to Beck decided he was going to be the one who 'obeyed' the voices on his tv and go 'obliterate' people who worked for the Tides Foundation. The only reason it didn't happen was because a highway patrolman pulled the guy over and arrested him before he could carry out his plan. This is the kind of crap that makes listening to people like Beck and Limbaugh such a dangerous pasttime; granted, the idiot that listened to 'the voices' was at least 2 standard deviations below the mean (bell curve), but that doesn't let Beck, et al off the hook for inciting this kind of violence.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
    • +2
      August_K  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      Come on, admit it, the truth should prevail and if one side wants to play dirty all the time they need to be stood up to.
      Frankly I'm sick of all the BS commercials the right has been airing all over TV.

      Workers rights are evil, government safety nets are evil, our right to decent health care is evil.
      It's not even an election month and they're pouring millions into fear mongering and lies.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
    • +2
      August_K  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      They aren't the same. One lies and one wants to expose those lies.

      And Beck is more than just a commentator with a "stupid opinion" when he goes on and on about people and companies and some get death threats and some find out that the highway patrol just stopped a heavily armed madman who admitted he was on his way to "take out Liberals".

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
    • 0
      Leen61  
    • wolfess:

      The same thing happened to me yesterday and this morning too. Not to worry. All you can do is try at a later time and if the same message repeats itself, I just delete the repeats.

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
    • 0
      Leen61  
    • wolfess:

      Not at all. They don't get off hook. I don't care if the person is sane or not that listens to FOX. I heard about the Tides Foundation incident. And there have been so many other instances where the person wasn't caught and many lives were shattered. I don't remember which state, but some guy was reading Glenn Beck, O'Reilly etc. and he went to a church where all types of people were welcome. Gay, straight, black, white etc. and he walked in and just started shooting because it was a liberal church. FOX and it's talking heads are responsible for the hate speech they spew.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • +7
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • Image

    • 1 Million Strong to Turn Off FOX: Stop FOX's lies from being spread and legitimized on public TVs.
      http://current.com/entertainment/92684717_1-million-strong-to-turn-off-fox-stop-...

      It's happened to all of us. You're in a public place and FOX News is on TV. You sit and simmer, or pack up and move on. You can't bear the idea that the lies, distortions and race-baiting that FOX News uses to divide our country are being promoted as mainstream news.
      FOX is poisonous — and it spreads and is legitimized partly through public TVs. It's why CREDO is joining with Color of Change to launch Turn Off FOX — a massive campaign to get FOX turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places.
      Will you join us in calling on businesses in your community and across the country to stop airing FOX, and declare your own household a "FOX-free zone"? With thousands of our signatures to back them up, Turn Off FOX members will visit local businesses that play FOX, explain how divisive and dangerous it is, and ask them to turn it off.
      Please take a moment to add your voice — you'll get a FREE "Turn Off FOX" sticker, and we'll tell you how to get more involved.
      Some people watch Fox at home because it reflects their view of the world; but there are others who see it on TV in public places and assume that it's legitimate news. FOX News is often on in bars, restaurants, airport lounges, stores — appearing to be real news, while spreading lies, hate, division and promoting the political agenda that was confirmed with FOX parent company News Corporation's $1 million contribution to elect Republican governors.
      The goal of Turn Off FOX is to reduce the number of public TVs showing FOX News, while spreading the word about FOX's poison (and how it works) to those who don't know.
      Signing up for the campaign is just the first step. We make it easy for you to tell us about businesses playing FOX. If you're willing to talk with them, we'll provide you with straightforward materials that explain why they shouldn't be a party to what FOX is doing. And if there are businesses you know that want to tell the world they would never play FOX, you can help them declare themselves a "FOX-free zone."
      As businesses Turn off FOX and stand up as FOX Free, and as we encourage our friends and family to do the same, we'll help make clear, to people across the country, what FOX is about. And we'll reduce their ability to do harm.

      http://turnofffox.org/
      http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tof_pledge/
      http://www.facebook.com/pages/1-Million-Strong-to-Turn-Off-FOX/151969271481675

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • +4
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • Image

    • Tell FOX: Post a Disclaimer
      http://current.com/news/92693678_tell-fox-post-a-disclaimer.htm

      Americans depend on objective reporting of the news -- especially during election season. But News Corp's $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association makes FOX a deeply partisan observer in the reporting of the 2010 gubernatorial elections.
      Americans deserve to know about your direct involvement in this campaign. You must post a disclaimer about News Corp's political contribution during your gubernatorial election coverage.
      But this contribution crosses a line that FOX has never crossed before, and takes its bias to a whole new level.
      It's time for FOX to own up to its bias. During FOX's 2010 governors race coverage, FOX must disclose News Corp's million dollar support of Republican gubernatorial candidates.
      FOX can no longer claim to be an impartial observer in this election. But FOX's election coverage will be watched by millions of voters, and those voters deserve to know that FOX and its parent company are deeply invested in the outcome. That's why FOX must disclose News Corp's contribution to its viewers.

      http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/fox_disclaimer/index.html?rc=confemail&r...

    • 1 year ago
  • ecoalex
    • +2
      ecoalex  

    • Stewart has Bret Bair on.It was a comedy;Bair trying to say Fox has some of the best reporters and is a real news based channel with some commentary.Steward obviously amused asked if it's the news,why does it have to have a slant?Bair denied the slant on reporting the news.Stewart was hardly containing his guffaw at Bair's statement.Bair himself also seemed amused at what was coming out of his mouth.

      Let's face it the MSM is owned by corporations that 'shape' how the news is reported.Fox to the extreme right,the MSM to the right.The idea of a "Liberal news bias" is laughable, a page out of Goebbels playbook.

      Repeat a lie enough ,the people believe it.Fox's creedo.

      Obama is a Muslim foreigner. Ok Rupert& Rodger.Nice work.

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • +5
      wolfess  
    • ecoalex:

      Obama is a Muslim foreigner. Ok Rupert& Rodger.Nice work.

      Murdoch is a foreigner too, and the shrub helped him get American citizenship; and truth be told, the only true Americans are Indians. I don't care who came from where, as long as they are a POSITIVE influence here, and Murdoch does NOT qualify!

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Wanderer_KS
  • cherry5000
  • ReMarker
  • The_Wanderer_KS
    • +1
      The_Wanderer_KS  
    • ReMarker:

      America was founded by centrists to be run by centrists, so that all matters could be looked at rationally from multiple angles and the right choices could be made. As it has been proven by poll after poll the majority of people are centrists there for the concept of a goverment "Of The People, By The People, And Of The People" is still grandly just!

      Unfortunately we have lost our way, and political influence is now held by the wealthy (domestic or foriegn) instead of by our citizenry. The wealthy like all others organisms on earth will look after thier own(the wealthy's) welfare, regardless regardless of how it affects others.

      The centrists will likewise look after the interest of the centrists first and foremost, but as those include primarily the the right to life, the right to business, the right to learn, the right to think, and the right to choose it would seem to me these are the best tenets for our government to follow anyway.

      Also when did the concepts of "socialism" and "communism" become interchangable? Just wondering, because I musta missed a memo.

    • 1 year ago
  • theknopfknows
    • +1
      theknopfknows  

    • Mixing it up with the THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER, YES MURDOCH AUSSIE JEW, who wants to rule the media world.
      YES mesmerized the American Pubic-public, grab your junk sir;
      with the SIMPSONS, FOX sports, and finally Fox news, Bill Oreally, Handy Hannity, what the Heck Beck, dash of Sahara Palin and sell them all to the Saudi Prince, SLAVES EVERY ONE OF THEM!

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
  • PeteLeS33
    • +3
      PeteLeS33  

    • As I have said before, foux news is nothing but propraganda. We all must support this cause. If the Federal Government will NOT bring back the Fairness Act then it is up to us to DEMAND that it is re instateded. Foux so called news has done nothing but misconstrude the facts and did it's damnests to obscoure the truth.

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Inglorious_Bastard
    • +2
      The_Inglorious_Bastard  

    • I think the world of pro wrestling could hold the key to fixing corporate "news" media. Remember when the WWF was legally required to change to the WWE, because the word "federation" made it sound like an unscripted sport. The "news" on Fox is as twisted as anything on The Daily Show or Colbert, but at least Stewart and Colbert are not claiming to be real news. Sure, Fox has a right to free speech, but why does that mean they have to have the right to call it news? Force them to remove the word news from their channel and I could care less what that psycopath, Glenn Beck spouts out of his mouth.

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Wanderer_KS
    • +1
      The_Wanderer_KS  
    • The_Inglorious_Bastard:

      I agree that anything held within a framework that includes "News" in it's title or description should feature nothing but the factual information of the journalistic classics "who, what, where, when, why" and any updates to this information on thier running stories. Anything that is reactionary or opnionated should not be included, or be parsed away in thier own sections with posted disclaimers.

      Remember when real journalists would apologize to an audience for making a heated comment, remember when opnions got thier small portion of a news broadcast (I mean who doesn't love Andy Rooney), but now fist flailing, spittle tossing Glenn Beck gets like 4 hours of live airtime a day between his various posts under the guise of "News".

    • 1 year ago
  • cherry5000
  • Warren_Merrill
    • -7
      Warren_Merrill  

    • Who cares! The averge person has no idea who Media Matters is. Liberals can cheer them on while no one else pays attention. Media Matters has less exposure than the cast of characters on MSNBC or MSLSD as I recently heard them called. I wonder how much money George Soros pumped into this project.

      I've come to the conclusion Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Glen Beck and Fox News have something so important to say that can hurt the Democratic Party. Otherwise why would the left spend so much time and energy attempting to discredit them. If their message was insignificant they could be ignored. Then again the Democratic Party has no message of their own to run on the American people want to hear.

    • 1 year ago
  • Cruzankenny
    • +4
      Cruzankenny  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      "Otherwise why would the left spend so much time and energy attempting to discredit them. If their message was insignificant they could be ignored."
      Somehow John Kerry went from a decorated war veteran to someone less patriotic than a man who never completed his commitment to the Texas National Guard.
      Somehow the majority of conservatives believe President Obama is a Kenya born, Madrasah schooled Muslim.
      Those who should be more responsible in their duty to Country, like the speaker of the house, help perpetrate these lies while at the same time admit to their falsehood.
      These are a few reasons why Media Matters and other fact checking institutions are necessary to counter the outright lies being perpetrated by Fox news and its mouthpieces. Not because of some secret held by Sarah Palin or others of her ilk on the right.

    • 1 year ago
  • PeteLeS33
    • +3
      PeteLeS33  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      WHO CARES? Millions of us that want FACTUAL information that is REALLY going on instead of what SOMEONE ELSE THINKS we want to hear. Thats who cares! Truth hurts, but let's hear it anyway!

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Inglorious_Bastard
    • +3
      The_Inglorious_Bastard  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      Sorry, brother, but you are on the wrong side of history. That doesn't even mean you need to be more "left" to be on the right side of history. Fox isn't even conservative, but some sick, twisted, psychopathic thing flying a conservative flag and shilling faux Americana. Ripping you for being conservative would only help Fox's agenda, which is to make you and I hate each other. Meanwhile, we get violated in the backdoor by a select few.

    • 1 year ago
  • cicly
    • +2
      cicly  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      to be so far off the mark smacks of baiting. and if it's not baiting, then in all honesty, take some time to find facts from non-partisan sources. it may be difficult, but not impossible.

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • +2
      wolfess  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      YOU are the perfect example of why Fox has to be stopped.
      I ignore Fox, but obviously there are far too many of my fellow citizens who don't have the personal fortitude to 'just say no' to Fox news.

    • 1 year ago
  • dinm76
  • UtopianSky
    • 0
      UtopianSky  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      You say:
      "I've come to the conclusion...."

      Whatever that was, it can't be called a "conclusion". One arrives at a conclusion using reason, and there was none here.

      You say:
      "something so important to say that can hurt the Democratic Party. Otherwise why would the left spend so much time and energy attempting to discredit them."

      Wow, the logic there is astounding.

      So, you are saying that we should not, for example, fight the war against terrorism?
      The simple fact that we spend so much time and energy fighting against Islamic Fundamentalists must mean they are actually right!

      And the FBI going after organized crime- well, that means the Mafia must be right too!

      How about this- just maybe the point is that FOX news lies and manipulates the American public to gain control over them for their nefarious schemes, and the rest of us want to stop the brainwashing.

      It not that they are spouting truths that the Democrats want to hide or censor- it's that they spread lies that Media Maters wants to expose.

      But you LIKE lies.

      You say:
      "If their message was insignificant they could be ignored."

      Do you know the diference between value and significance?
      A plague has no value to us- but it is definitely significant.
      People fight against things that are significant, and harmful.

      You say:
      "Then again the Democratic Party has no message of their own to run on the American people want to hear."

      Wow, you truly live in your own little world. The current president of the United States is a Democrat, and he is highly popular. Plus, in a recent Pew Poll Obama would win against any of the current crop of Republicans with their hats in the ring, plus he would win against "generic Republican".

      http://people-press.org/report/720/

      It seems you just don't have your finger on the pulse of what Americans want to hear.

      ... just like most Republicans.

    • 1 year ago
  • madammarsh
    • 0
      madammarsh  
    • dinm76:

      I rarely agree with Warren_M. on anything, but this type of post solves nothing and plays into the hands of those (Fox, Koch bros, the new right-wing governors) who like nothing better than to see us all breaking into small, hate-filled factions. While we fight amongst ourselves, they're going to be BUSY!

    • 1 year ago
  • Nick19
  • TheAmericanPatriot
  • cherry5000
  • madammarsh
  • stubones
    • +4
      stubones  

    • Go get em Media Matters-Fox has so much blood on it's hands from cramming the Bush and company WAR agenda down our throats-They were so very complicit in selling those insane WARS to the American People -And now it is the Ultra Conservative "Tea Party" movement to "Privatize America" for the Kochs and their ilk-I will never forgive or forget!!!
      DOWN WITH THE TEA PARTY-DOWN WITH THE KOCHS-DOWN WITH FOX NEWS-

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
  • The_Inglorious_Bastard
  • TheAmericanPatriot
    • -10
      TheAmericanPatriot  

    • I have been to Media Matters and the only media that seems to matter to Media Matters is Fox News. They definitely are not fair nor balanced in my opinion.

    • 1 year ago
  • sharin
    • +4
      sharin  
    • TheAmericanPatriot:

      and you opinion maters because....? I bet MMfA really pisses you off - they do a great job of posting the facts (the TRUTH) after posting the lies that Fox happens to be pushing on any given day?

    • 1 year ago
  • TheAmericanPatriot
  • UtopianSky
    • +4
      UtopianSky  
    • TheAmericanPatriot:

      Yes, they just said they are focusing on FOX News.

      While they not be "fair and balanced" in their choice of targets, they chose the one target with a long history of being unfair and unbalanced.

      As I'm sure you are aware, FOX News is a propaganda machine- nothing more, nothing less. They constantly lie to the public, so Media Maters should be applauded for exposing those lies.

      Or are you saying you WANT to be lied to, as long as you like the lies?

      Do you care at all about truth?

    • 1 year ago
  • TheAmericanPatriot
  • UtopianSky
    • +5
      UtopianSky  
    • TheAmericanPatriot:

      There actually is such a thing as factual truth- so obviously you don't care about that.

      You want to be lied to as long as you like the lies.

      You even justify it by your 'well, what is truth anyway' attitude.

      Stop being a sheep.

    • 1 year ago
  • The_Inglorious_Bastard
    • +3
      The_Inglorious_Bastard  
    • TheAmericanPatriot:

      Thank god for Media Matters then. Fox is too powerful to not have an arch enemy. And don't try and claim CNN or MSNBC are, because they are like the Combs to Fox's Hannity. Sure, CNN and MSNBC are trash too, but they are trash because they just push fluff and do not go after the real crooks, their corporate masters.

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
  • Milieu
123
1 - 100 of 229
more from Community:
from the community

top videos